Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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